Hello, On Sun, Apr 22 2018, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I thought of a case where a .dsc is not sufficient and one needs a > .changes: services like <http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/>. I thought of one more case recently: uploading to security-master. You can't dgit push there yet, so you need an _source.changes. This might be a reason to not remove but instead firmly deprecate build-source, until one can dgit push to security-master. However, I think it is fine to drop it. Firstly, because `dgit build -S` exists. Secondly, I take it that the original purpose of the [s]build* subcommands was as intermediate steps on the way to a dgit push, and now the build-source intermediate step is not required. Indeed, our manpages advise users to use dpkg-buildpackage directly when producing binaries for testing. The reason for limiting dgit subcommands in this way is to restrict dgit's role to being the bidirectional archive<>git gateway, not an all purpose Debian packaging wrapper script like git-buildpackage is. -- Sean Whitton
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